Ahhhhhh
The end of the first quarter is tomorrow! Woohoo!!! One down, three to go! Haha, how sad is that??? I'm all ready for the end of the school year already and it barely started. Funny, we've been in school for nine weeks and I still have students that are unable to put their names on their papers. I have a TON of failures and the parents are all mad at me, yet their children can't seem to figure out that when they take work home to finish, they kinda need to BRING IT BACK!!! That's become an issue.So I am going to spend this weekend grading portfolios and trying to figure out how to salvage grades. I can't have over half of my students failing, so I have to figure where I am going wrong. I am going to be required to do a "standards based progress report" this year, and I have no doubts that the parents are going to find it meaningless. I found it meaningless, and it's going to add about an hour extra per student. Gee, that sound like fun seeing as how I have 120 students.
I am starting my unit on evolution next week, and I am not looking forward to it. I had such a hard time with classification that I'm afraid to get into any more difficult material. Evolution is against what most of my students believe in, so I know I am going to hit some resistance. I'm afraid of my evolution unit. SO, if anybody has any advice or helpful hints, I would sincerely appreciate them. I feel like I'm playing on the wrong side of the playground.
With that said, I am going to indulge in my guilty pleasure (The O.C.) and enter grades into the computer (thank the lord for Gradequick!). Have a great night!!
posted by lobo5747 @ 5:44 PM
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